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Customer advocacy or just smarting off without consequences

Posted on January 4, 2018 by DocDock

Don’t ever dare Murphy’s law. I guess I did put the hit out on our washing machine by bragging how old it was.  Within weeks, it broke. We have children and cannot be without a wash machine for more than … Continue reading →

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using docker

Posted on December 23, 2017 by DocDock

Although docker does have quite a few command options a small subset is all you need for general usage.  The number of individual tasks you need is limited the following. download an image run the image remove the image build … Continue reading →

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lightweight virtualization – docker

Posted on December 16, 2017 by DocDock

Virtual machines can allow you better utilize the resources or make it possible to run multiple incompatible versions of the same software or even different operating systems. Virtual machines sound like the perfect solution, instead of a server that runs … Continue reading →

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Support your favorite …

Posted on December 2, 2017 by DocDock

The open source community is an amazing place.  No matter what software you want there is an extremely good chance that it exists. You can use Gimp for manipulating graphic images, LibreOffice or Apache Office for word processing, piviti for … Continue reading →

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fighting the last war – playing Blu-ray movies on Linux

Posted on November 25, 2017 by DocDock

How exactly did the product meeting go. We never had a graphical desktop and so lets just continue on with a 25 x 80 character green text only screen, the customer always loved those. Today a personal computer or even … Continue reading →

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The perception of power (of 9 volts)

Posted on November 13, 2017 by DocDock

When travelling I want to arrive at my destination ontime and unhurt.  I do appreciate that the world’s governments are just as interested and do take steps to ensure that dangerous people don’t hijack the plane or even worse. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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coding like it is 1996

Posted on November 8, 2017 by DocDock

It is a sad fact but I don’t always get to pick the tools I use at work.  Just today I felt like my colleague and I woke up in 1996 – back when java 1.6 was released. The client … Continue reading →

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windows batch processing

Posted on November 1, 2017 by DocDock

I really didn’t want to fool around with that little windows task that has been laying on my boss’s desk. It was planned that Robert would do it after the new year started but then he decided to quit. Now … Continue reading →

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lo-resolution fun – setting up a minecraft server

Posted on October 26, 2017 by DocDock

I remember playing computer games on 640×480 resolution and it was a lot of fun. Computer graphics has now improved to the point that some of the games are virtually photo-realistic. With all of this in mind it didn’t make … Continue reading →

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Maven simple example

Posted on October 20, 2017 by DocDock

Maven was briefly described in my previous post.  In this post I will do a few small examples for actually using Maven. One of the main things about Maven is the idea of the artifact.  The artifact is a file, which … Continue reading →

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